NEW ZEALAND POSTINGS

Last year at ANZAC Day I carried a New Zealand Flag at the Dawn Service In Wellington and again later a a small community parade where I had been invited to give the ANZAC Day address. During the day New Zealand Flags flown at half mast were prominent on flagpoles on several buildings. However mine was the only New Zealand flag carried on the Dawn parade and I was joined by one other later in the day. This particular flag I also carried at the ANZAC COVE and CHUNUK BAIR services at the 75th anniversary of the landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1990. I will be carrying my flag again this year on ANZAC Day wherever I happen to be.

Would some of you like to join me in spirit by carrying the New Zealand Flag on parade on ANZAC Day where ever you may be. A forest of New Zealand Flags would be great to see on an ANZAC Day parade. It would also put into action a spirit that supports the many comments that passed through this means earlier this year.

Take for example various patriotic parades in many European countries. When shown on TV there are many national flags being carried by ordinary people.

New Zealand flags are not expensive and a staff to carry it on is not difficult to make.

Are there any takers?

Clas Chamberlain

TIS TRUE!!!!!!!!!

"Geezers" (slang for an old man) are easy to spot:

At sporting events, during the playing of the National Anthem, Old Geezers hold their caps over their hearts and sing without embarrassment. They know the words and believe in them. Old Geezers remember, Gallipoli, World War I, the Depression, World War II, Pearl Harbour , Kakoda Track , Normandy and Hitler. They remember the Atomic Age, the Korean War, The Cold War, the Malayan Emergency and Borneo Confrontation,the Jet Age and the Moon Landing, not to mention Vietnam .

If you bump into an Old Geezer on the footpath, he will apologize. If you pass an Old Geezer on the street, he will nod or tip his cap to a lady. Old Geezers trust strangers and are courtly to women. Old Geezers hold the door for the next person and always, when walking, make certain the lady is on the inside for protection.

Old Geezers get embarrassed if someone curses in front of women and children and they don't like any filth on TV or in movies. Old Geezers have moral courage. They seldom brag unless it's about their grandchildren.

It's the Old Geezers who know our great country is protected, not by politicians or police, but by the young men and women in the military serving their country.

This country needs Old Geezers with their decent values. We need them now more than ever.

Thank God for Old Geezers!